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(No Model.)

- J.L.PARKER.

BENCH VISE.

No. 253,756. Patented Feb. 14,1882.

llll It WITNESSES 6% ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JESSE LINDON PARKER, OF FOUNTAIN CITY, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND R. F. WILLCU'IS, OF SAME PLACE.

BENCH-VISE.

\ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,756, dated February 14., 1882,

Application filed August 6, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: treadle G upward engaged with the catch- Be it known that I, JEssE L. PAR-KER, of plate G, thatissecuredon thejawAjustabove Fountain City, in the county of Wayne and the opening 9 therein, whereby the lower end State of Indiana, have invented a new and of the jaw-B is held at any desired distance 5 Improved Bench-Vise, of which the following from the jaw A. On pressing down on the is a full, clear, and exact specification. treadle F and disengaging it from the plate The object of this invention is to provide a G the block F, and with it the lower end of cheaper, more convenient, and more easily the jaw B, can be moved in or out as may be manipulated vise for a carpenters bench than desired, the dog on on the handle of the treadle IO any such vise heretofore known. Gbeingin the meantime engaged in the ratchet The invention consists of a vise provided a, that is fixed on a side of the opening fin with a tenoned and shouldered screw-block for v the jaw B, and on releasing the dog at fromthe the upper screw, and with a notched treadle, ratchet n the treadle G is made to re-engage spring, and oatch-plateinlieu of the usuallower with the plate G, and thereby hold the lower 1 screw or guide-bar, all of which will be hereend of said jaw B fixed.

ina-fter set forth. Pivoted on a side of the bench-leg G is a Figure l is a front elevation of the same, treadle, H, that, pressed by a spring, H, also with parts broken away to exhibit other parts. secured on the leg 0, is made to cngagein one Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the imor the otherof the notches 0 in the edge of the 20 proved vise in position on line mm, Fig. 1, with jaw A for the purpose of holding the vise at parts broken away to exhibit other parts. Fig. any desired elevation. On pressing down the 3 is a cross-section on line 3 3 Fig. 2. said treadle H it is disengaged from a notch,

Similar letters of reference indicate correo, and the vise may then be moved up or down, sponding parts. asdesired,by takinghold ofthecross-handleE.

25 In the drawings, A B represent respectively Having thus described my invention, Iclainl t, the two jaws of the vise, andC the bench-leg, as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentprovided with a slot, (1 to admit the travel of 1. An improved bench-vise,constructed subthe vise. stantially as herein shown and described, con- D is the screw-block, mortised into the jaw sisting ot'jaw A, provided with screw E, block 30 A, having its tenons b moving in the slot a D, and opening g,of catch-plate G, and ofjaw of the bench-leg O, and its shoulders c bear- B,liavingopeningf, and provided with slotted ingagainst the inside of said leg (3; and E is block Fand pivoted ratchetspring treadle G, the upper screw, provided with cross-handle arranged as set forth.

- E, passing through jaws B A and screw-block 2. In a bench-vise, the combination, with the 35 D to draw the jaws A B together. The block jaws A B and the slotted bench-leg O, of the D guides the vise up and down in the slot a, screw-block D, provided with tenons b and and serves, in combination with the screw E, to shoulders c, substantially as and for the puro tighten the jaws A B on whatever is placed pose set forth. between said jaws. 3. In a bench-vise, the combination, with the 0 F represents a longitudinally-slotted block jaws A B, of the slotted block F, catch-plate gl mortised in the lower end of thejawB and ex- G, and spring-actuated treadle G, substantending through a corresponding opening, g, tially as herein shown and described, whereby 5 in the jaw A and rearward through the slot a the relative positions of the lower parts of in the bench-leg O; and in the slot (1 of said saidjaws are fixed, as set forth.

4 5 block F is pivoted a notched treadle, G, that 4. In a bench-vise, the combination, with jaw extends outward through the face of the jaw B, block F, and treadle G, provided with dog Bfconvenient to the foot of the operator. This m, of the ratchet a, substantially as herein roo treadle G is designed for holding the lower shown and described, whereby said treadle is ends of the jaws A B in any desired relative held disengaged, as set forth.

50 position. Aspring, F, having one end secured JESSE LINDON PARKER.

in the under side of the treadle G, while its Witnesses:

\ other end bears down upon the bottom of the ROBERT FrWILLOUTS,

"- opening f in the jaw B, serves to hold said EMMA PARKER. 

